Tara Flores has always volunteered to help the underprivileged find the means to help themselves. During her sophomore year of college, she took a trip to Ecuador. The journey impacted her deeply. She witnessed the plight and poverty of street children for the first time and decided she would go back to Latin America and help by teaching those who could not afford to attend school. She spent the next two years becoming proficient in Spanish to prepare for her mission.

After college, Tara returned to Central America and volunteered a year toward teaching the most destitute in Honduras, the third poorest country in the western hemisphere. She lived on a meager stipend of sixty dollars a month, but she gave much of it toward the care of infants and children she took in off the street.

Tara also secured medical care for many of the street children, working in addition to place them in homes as well. After finishing her year in Honduras, Tara took it upon herself and drew upon her own means to support two Honduran children. She has continued to do so, providing them funds for an education, food, and clothing. Tara has given her time and efforts to numerous local causes, including the groundwork to help organize a fundraising drive to restore a dilapidated church in a small community in Honduras.

Tara Flores journeyed to Honduras to volunteer her teaching skills, but she gave far beyond what she had committed to and what the poor of Honduras expected. Tara Flores gave of herself, caring for and virtually adopting the poorest children to provide them everything from medical treatment to the foundation of an education. Tara Flores has always had a giving heart, and in her work abroad she has given a most special part of her heart to those desperately disadvantaged whom she has come to know and love.

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